How much revenue did High School Odyssey make?

$38k–$102k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did High School Odyssey sell?

Q: How many copies did High School Odyssey sell?

15k to 25k copies, based on its 617 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–25k; $38k–$102k after Steam's cut $69k–$156k before Steam's cut; from 617 reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid High School Odyssey and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including High School Odyssey's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 947k–1.5M

best case 57.1M (Stardew Valley)

Games like High School Odyssey

A typical game among these

≈ 947k–1.5M copies

≈ $7.4M–$26.5M after Steam's cut

from ~36k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.5M–70.7M copies, ≈ $179.4M–$482.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the range was 951 to 208k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (6 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $17.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2026, and 2 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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